Compression of time happens in interesting ways with the “algorithmic” sites like
TikTok (or its equivalent competitors). You’ll see a video that says “our band is doing a tour and we’ll be in these cities on these dates”, but when you look into it, that tour actually ended six months ago. But the algorithm doesn’t know that *this* video, unlike the other videos by the same person, actually is timely.
I’m sure this happens with outrage porn to an even greater extent. Periodically an existing outrage video will be randomly shown to a few users, they’ll be outraged and interact, and the algorithm will think that it needs to show it again to lots of people. There doesn’t even need to be a human in the loop to repost the video!
Compression of time happens in interesting ways with the “algorithmic” sites like
TikTok (or its equivalent competitors). You’ll see a video that says “our band is doing a tour and we’ll be in these cities on these dates”, but when you look into it, that tour actually ended six months ago. But the algorithm doesn’t know that *this* video, unlike the other videos by the same person, actually is timely.
I’m sure this happens with outrage porn to an even greater extent. Periodically an existing outrage video will be randomly shown to a few users, they’ll be outraged and interact, and the algorithm will think that it needs to show it again to lots of people. There doesn’t even need to be a human in the loop to repost the video!